Last week, Geraldo Rivera said something stupid even by Geraldo Rivera standards. I don’t want to be accused of “mischaracterizing” his words, so here’s what he said: Speaking on Friday’s “Fox and Friends,” Rivera said, “”I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was.” Rivera argued that avoiding certain types of attire was a necessary deterrent against racial profiling. “It’s those crime scene surveillance tapes. Every time you see someone sticking up a 7-11, the kid is wearing a hoodie,” Rivera said. “You have to recognize that this whole stylizing yourself as a gangster, you’re gonna be a gangster wannabe? Well, people are gonna perceive you as a menace.” So, white kids get to wear hoodies without being racially profiled while black kids are stylizing themselves as gangsters if they wear one? I have a Harvard hoodie — am I asking to be racially profiled as a 7-11 stick-up boy when I go out with Harvard emblazoned across my chest?

Sorry, you know what I’m doing? I’m getting into an argument with Geraldo Rivera. Arguing with Geraldo is like trying to convince your dog to stop licking its butt; it hears you, but it doesn’t understand your concerns about propriety. Students at Harvard Law and Yale Law had a more effective response to all the people who think wearing a hoodie makes you look like a criminal. Tell me if these kids would scare you into gunning them down in the middle of the street…. Here’s the Harvard Law response: I particularly like the girl in the striped hoodie who is trying to look so hard. I tried to take my own “gangsta” hoodie photo, but I just ended up looking constipated. But I put on a sweater vest before leaving my house to take out my trash, because you never know when I’ll induce some other person into racially profiling me. Yale Law School had a similar response…A former Macy's employee racked up six weeks behind bars at Rikers Island for a subway theft he didn’t commit — because he fit the vague description of a black man wearing a hoodie, a bombshell lawsuit charged.

David Owens sued the city and Police Officer Anthony Francavilla on Monday, saying he was unfairly busted on Oct. 23, 2012. Owens had just clocked out of his stock clerk job at the Herald Square flagship store about 3 a.m. and boarded an uptown No. 1 train at 34th St., according to the federal suit filed in Manhattan. He had no idea he was walking into a nightmare set in motion an hour earlier when an “erratic, possibly intoxicated and definitely hysterical” white woman told police, according to Francavilla’s affidavit, that her backpack had been stolen at an A/C/E train station. Owens was still at Macy’s finishing up his shift when the alleged theft took place, his lawsuit says. The accuser told police she was resting with her feet on her backpack at 2:28 a.m. when she felt someone take it and later saw her hoodie-clad assailant “get off the train and run up a flight of stairs,” the lawsuit claims. David Owens was thrown in Rikers for six weeks in 2012, just because he matched he description of a black man wearing a hoodie who robbed a woman on a train.

Owens was at his job at Macy’s when the theft occurred, however. When police detained Owens an hour later, the woman, “who officers had to hold up as she spoke,” claimed that Owens did it, according to the complaint.phlebotomist hoodie CHECK OUT OUR NEW APP: GET THE DAILY NEWS ON ANDROID OR IOShoodie jkt48 Owens tried to protest, explaining he had just clocked out of his job. dota hoodies indiaHe even showed officers his time-card receipt and gave them the phone number of his supervisor, but Officer Francavilla utterly “ignored him,” the lawsuit claims.neath rugby shirt for sale Owens was arrested and charged with grand larceny, with his bail set at $3,550 — an amount he could not pay, his lawyer said.welovefine hoodie

He was locked away at Rikers on the word of a “totally unreliable” witness and a cop who refused to check his airtight alibi, lawyer Andrew Hoffman said. NYPD Officer Anthony Francavilla has been accused of falsey arresting two black men on different occasions in New York.doncaster rovers hoodie The mind-bending saga cost Owens his job at Macy’s and left him with cascading problems in his personal and professional life. “It messed me up,” Owens, who now lives in Augusta, Ga., told the Daily News exclusively Monday. “I just hoped and prayed I wouldn’t get killed in there, and I would be able to tell my story so other people wouldn’t have to go through what I did. “It was incredibly traumatic. If you get picked up and forcibly taken by someone and held against your will, it’s not that different from being kidnapped,” Hoffman told The News. The charge against Owens was dismissed after the six weeks in jail when prosecutors conceded they could not prove their case, the complaint states.

The dismissal “amplifies that the (female) complainant was totally unreliable, that no reasonable officer would have credited the word of the complainant and that the officers’ arrest of Mr. Owens was totally unsupported by probable cause,” the complaint states. Evan King, 27, also says he was falsely arrested by NYPD Police Officer Anthony Francavilla. Owens believes his civil rights were violated and he was the victim of malicious prosecution. He claims the city failed to adequately hire, screen and train Francavilla and the other unidentified transit officers involved in his ordeal. He is seeking a jury trial and punitive damages. “We will review the complaint,” a city spokesman said Monday. “We do not comment on pending litigation,” an NYPD spokesman said. Francavilla was involved in another high-profile arrest in April 2014 that involved claims of mistreatment. Los Angeles transplant Evan King said Francavilla called him a “d--k,” threw him to the ground and threatened his life when he dared to ask why he was being stopped and questioned at a Midtown subway station.

King also sued the city in Manhattan Federal Court. The suit was settled for $30,000 in December, according to a document filed on the court website Pacer. According to his complaint, Owens was never brought before a grand jury and never heard his arresting officers testify. The de Blasio administration has taken steps in recent months to overhaul the bail system to prevent low-level suspects from rotting in Rikers for lack of cash. Earlier this year, city officials earmarked $18 million to implement a system that would replace cash bail for about 3,000 low-risk defendants. Mayor de Blasio has also created a “bail lab” to work with the state’s court system to overhaul the process. The state’s chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, also announced his own bail reform initiative this month. Lippman said he was ordering the judiciary to take administrative steps to change how bail is set, including a review of bail conditions in recent cases and encouraging judges to use other types of bonds besides cash.